AP Poll 10/11

Associated Press Poll

Year: 1988

10/11/1988

Week 6

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	Miami (52)	1,115	1
2	UCLA (1)	1,051	2
3	USC (3)	1,012	3
4	Notre Dame	932	5
5	Florida State	817	6
6	West Virginia	811	7
7	Nebraska	747	9
8	South Carolina	704	8
9	Oklahoma	663	10
10	Oklahoma State	599	13
11	Clemson	564	11
12	Auburn	538	4
13	Georgia	452	15
14	Wyoming	323	16
15	Michigan	298	17
16	Washington	257	19
17	Arkansas	239	20
18	Indiana	147	NR
19	LSU	130	NR
20	Florida	77	14

Associated Press Poll
Started in 1936.

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The Associated Press began running polls of sports writers to determine who is, by popular opinion, the best college football team in the country. The first AP Poll was run in 1934 but was not run continuously until 1936.

The AP Poll currently lists the top 25 teams in the nation. From 1936 to 1961 the poll only ranked the top 20 teams. From 1962 to 1967 it only ranked the top 10 teams. From 1968 to 1988 the AP Poll returned to ranking the top 20 teams. In 1989 they started ranking the top 25 teams.

The AP poll was used in the beginning of the BCS to calculate the team standings. Due to some controversies within the BCS, the AP Poll was pulled from these calculations which caused the BCS to create the new Harris Poll.